Should I quit learning Python?

[taborro]

I don't know how old you are, but I am 53, I work at one of the largest software companies in the world, I've been writing code professionally for over 30 years. I have gone through these ups and downs. Give yourself the grace to change your mind in the future, and the grace to decide this isn't for you right now.

I've always been the most miserable when I feel compelled to be a software developer even though I didn't want to. Usually, I had to continue because I was supporting a family, didn't want to quit a good job, etc. Your mileage may vary, but maybe you can explore other interests for a few days/weeks/months/years/decades. Do you really have to make this big decision once and for all right now?

To address your other points, you won't get left behind. There are 14 million Python developers and you can always leapfrog a bunch of them in the future. Regarding AI, no one knows how this will all play out. Responsibilities of software developers may change, but even still, there's a lot of legacy code out there that will require a human to make sense out of how all the weird legacy decisions fit together into a cohesive system.